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Nielsen/NetRatings slices click-rate data

Young kids click on banner ads at eight times the rate of older teens, according to new data from Nielsen/NetRatings. The Web measurement service said the average banner click rate slipped to 0.45% in June, off from 0.62% one year ago.

Click-rate age data use the new Internet Advertising Strategies service, which launches this week. The service analyzes banner click rates by age, income and country and views by local market; tracks new banners; and examines Web traffic before and after banner campaigns.

Kids 2 through 11 had a click rate of 0.87% in June -- nearly five times the 0.19% of ages 12 to 17, and eight times that of the group least likely to click, ages 18 to 20, 0.11%.

Age click rates cannot be compared directly to the overall average because age breakouts exclude ads seen by too few people in a given group. But age rates can be compared with each other.

Some banners did deliver: An Eastpak Corp. backpack giveaway drew a 20% teen click rate. A Real.com banner clicked with 11.6% of users 18 to 20. Young kids were more clickhappy than any other group, with the prospect of fun a powerful lure. June's top banner for kids: Warner-Lambert Consumer Group's Trident "Adventures of Supertooth" with a 9.8% click rate. CartoonNetwork.com had three of the top 10 banners among kids.

MAKING BANNERS FUN

"Kids are really into games online, and they seem to be the target market for convergence in watching television programs and going online," said Ms. Maddox.

But kids' click rates have slipped in recent months. "The message here," she said, "is that advertisers need to understand who's clicking on their ads" -- and target the creative appropriately.